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| A view of the house from the dam |
Features explored on our tours
include:-
- Passive solar house design using thermal mass to control temperature
- Earth bermed walls, mudbrick construction and radial sawn timber including a peek at our new mudbrick cottage (under construction)
- Oat roller and motorised grain grinder (using an old washing machine motor)
- Designing houses to resist fire & bushfire defence strategies including a fire shelter
- Solar power system that provides power to our house (No mains grid connection)
- Grey and black water worm farm treatment system.
- Wood stove for cooking, heating, ironing and hot water supply
- Fresh water and garden irrigation reticulation systems
- Large organic veggie garden and use of compost to build soil depth from 10mm to 300mm.
- Seed saving and companion planting.
- Organic orchard with over 100 varieties of fruiting trees and bushes
- Less common plants include yakon, lemonade tree, white sapote, shatoot mulberry
- Free range hens and ducks
- Fences, gates, trellises, hothouse and outbuildings made from recycled materials.
- Our plans to use a steam engine as a back-up power supply for our solar system
- Fish stocked multifunction dam, and much more
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| Hopefully all the blossoms will turn into plenty of fruit |
Our property is in the Yarra Valley,
65km from Melbourne. If you would like to join our tour, you are very welcome.
Bookings are essential as we have a limit of 20 people. The tour runs from 1:30
to 4:30 and the $15 per adult cost includes afternoon tea. Email us for more
information and how to get here at tenderbreak@bigpond.com.
If you cannot make it on these days, email us,
and we will let you know when the next tour is on. Hope you can come.
1 comment:
Love eastern to you !!
Have you a mail or facebook profile where i could find you?
My mail is gogogo@email.it
See you!!
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